This is 2013 and not 2002. Wake up and move on Congressi's. Do you want to be stuck in the 1980s with the Sikh riots and many others in the country?

Move on. It is time for a change so the corrupt Congress politicians can be investigated and prosecuted.

10:19 am December 18, 2012

Someone Thinking in United States wrote:

Let me understand this article.

India is 80% Hindu, 12% Muslim, 5% Christians, and rest are other religions. The article alleges other parties are scared they will loose elections if they join hands with Modi because the 12% somehow controls the elections. Unbelievable.

The article also spends more space for the theory that Indian electorate cares only about the tragedy that happened in 2002, and one Modi has never been found to be directly responsible. Alleging that he was responsible for it, is like alleging Nelson Mandela is responsible for South African racial and industrial violence over the last 20 years.

The article implies that Indian electorate should not and does not care about what governance issues Modi has shown a 10+ years of extraordinary leadership performance: high paying jobs, security, corruption reduction, infrastructure improvements, schools access, rural hospitals, opportunity, sharply rising household income, free market reforms, poverty reduction, and literacy rates.

I think Indian electorate deserves more respect that such biased, spin story filled, unbelievable analysis. Don't you?

10:23 am December 18, 2012

Amar wrote:

Modi is not communal but he neither pretend to be secular like many of his detractors (especially congress party) do. He simply hates appeasing a community just for votes. India needs leaders like him who is a visionary and able administrator. Not the spineless/utter corrupt people in power in center at present.

10:34 am December 18, 2012

hitesh wrote:

It is unfortunate that the Mr Narendra Modi has had to face sustained allegations with regard to the 2002 Godhra Riots, despite the fact that there has not been any evidence against him. He has had to face a trial by media and no evidence has been found against him and the Supreme Court has also ruled in his favour.

11:09 am December 18, 2012

observation wrote:

I never read a single article in WSJ about Mr. Modi without mentioning year 2002. In every instace, it was never forgotten to mention mostly Muslims got killed in the violence. And every time root cause of violence Godhara incedent is skipped cleverly.

1:17 pm December 18, 2012

Lalit G wrote:

I hope at least for the sake of silencing all his unreasonably "secular" detractors and so-called "political pundits" who have time and time again been proven wrong and out of touch with the national mood, Modi becomes India's next Prime Minister. Every negative comment against him in the blighted and unfair media - both domestic and international - makes Modi stronger, and in turn creates an unbreakable resolve within the minds of average Indian voters who want nothing more than good governance to elect him to power.

During 2012 elections, it was clear that Modi is at loggerheads with Praveen Togadia of V.H.P. (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) and some members of the R.S.S., yet section of the media keep harping on 2002. Successive elections have showed that the voters of Gujarat has opted for Modi. Would we call all these voters as communal? It is high time the media stops vested interests from projecting secular / pseudo secular and communal forces. 99% of Congress and 1% of minority leaders may be scared of Modi / Moditva / Hindutva. No particular community is scared of all such labels.

2:57 pm December 18, 2012

Sharraad Prabhuddas wrote:

Prem Shankar Jha, a political analyst and columnist, must check how many Muslims voted for him in Gujarat. It would be appropriate if such self proclaimed political analysts do their homework rather than blindly entertaining vested interests, which end up as wasted interest.

Gujarat election over sure win Mr.Modi, next step to Modi is PM in India for development of our country

7:04 pm December 18, 2012

CA Satish Shetty wrote:

No exit poll is needed.Landslide victory for Modi was very well expected for the great job done by him to Gujarat with his hard work,great visionery,good administration etc.People of India want him as PM in 2014 for the development of the entire nation.

8:54 pm December 18, 2012

brahmaputtra wrote:

Riots in Gujarat has nothing to do with Narendra Modi because:
1. 30 innocent Hindu Carasevaks were burned alive by a muslim mob. Was Modi responsible for this?
2. People show the outburst when they saw dead bodies and severity of the incident-train burning on TV
Channels. Did Modi ask TV Channels to telecast this news?
3. People were angry and their reaction was spontaneous. No government could control it right away.
Even mobilising the police forces take 1 or 2 days. Narendra Modi ask help from Neighboring Madhya
Pradesh and Maharashtr for providing police force. The so called dhhongi-- Congress government
refused to provide help.
4. Even deployment of Military takes time. By the time too much water has passed in Ganga, Yamuna,
Narmada and even Sabarmati river had lost all of her water and became dry in Ahmedabad.
5. Premshankar Zaa go to Ahmedabad and talk to muslims, they will proudly talk about Modi as thier hero.
Muslims can not survive without Hindus since their bread and butter depends on Hindus.
6. Modi has mobilized the whole Gujarat. Economy is thriving in such a way that now it is hard to find
workers. People do not have time to think anything but earning money. This is not limited only to
Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajakot, Surat, it is all over Gujarat.

9:39 pm December 18, 2012

Surya wrote:

Most probably Keshubhai will die of heart attack after the election result is published in 20th.

9:44 pm December 18, 2012

DAVENDRA GOYAL wrote:

Sir,I guess 9.59% average growth is highest for the period ending March,2012 during preceding 5 years. A super achievement indeed,rather eye opener for other states as well as country as a whole. It is practical approach without political motives.

9:51 pm December 18, 2012

Dilip Mukerjee wrote:

The over intelligent legends should not treat brand Gujarati communal ;if you are making falls promises for underprivileged or minorities then you are secular other wise????????????

People of India should come over all these heinous mentalities of our social thinkers??????????????
Vande Matram!!!!!!!!

Jai Hind!!!!

1:46 am December 19, 2012

Arjun Natarajan wrote:

Mr. Modi is the only one who deserves a vote from all patriotic Indians. He has done the impossible and proven that politicians can benefit society and not just rob them as they are so good at doing. Just for this, Mr. Modi should and will become India's next PM. As the western world collapses, Mr. Modi as the pilot will guide India to great heights.

2:02 am December 19, 2012

Balakrishna wrote:

Telugu Desam party is not in NDA anymore and they will never be a part of Congress led alliance as they are bitter rivals in the state of Andhra Pradesh . I am really not sure how the TDP party was included in this news article.

4:22 am December 19, 2012

Sanjay wrote:

India is currently suffering under the misrule of Sonia Gandhi & Co just as China suffered under Mao's widow Madame Jiang Qing and her "Cultural Revolution" (in India's case, the pretext for tyranny is being marketed as a "Sekoolar Revolution"). It's only when China overthrew Madame Jiang and her infamous "Gang of Four" that China was able to move on to the Deng era of accelerated progress and achievement. Likewise, it will only be after Madame Sonia and her predatory clique are ousted that India will be able to move forward into its own Deng-style era of progress and advancement under the capable Narendra Modi. Then we will finally be able to have meritocracy and technocracy over oligarchy and the Personality Cult built around the Nehru-Gandhi artificial dynasty. The handwriting is on the wall, but the Congress Party kleptocracy refuse to see it. Their days are numbered.

A decade after the 2002 Muslim genocide in Gujarat, it is still used as the excuse for acts like the bombing of the German Bakery in Pune.

The attackers at the Taj in Mumbai in Nov 2008 got local support and one of the reasons was Muslim anger over the genocide.

Gujarat, not Kashmir, is the number one reason for terrorist violence against India.

And the cause is not far to seek. When Modi refuses to accept responsibility for or even the guilt of a minister convicted and sentenced for mass murder, when he stands by ministers just out of jail and accused of violent and hateful acts, he keeps the genocide alive.

The reason behind the increase in recruitment to India’s extremist groups is Gujarat.

The indefensible 2002 Muslim genocide in Gujarat is the single most effective recruitment factor in al-Qaeda’s drive to bring into its fold not just Arabs, North Africans, Bangladeshis, and Pakistanis, but Indian nationals as well.

In this genocide, Muslim men were set afire alive with rubber tires around their necks. Women participated in the genocide as (pregnant) Muslim women were first (gang-)raped, then tortured and then set on fire - to avenge the crimes against Hindu women in the 14th century [1, 2, 3].

Gruesome accounts of Muslims being battered and burnt to death in Gujarat proliferate on social networking sites. The fact that there has thus far been almost no punishment meted out to the principal actors behind the genocide hasn’t helped douse Muslim rage at this attack on their co-religionists in Gujarat, which was sponsored by Saffrons.

The Saffrons have consistently refused to censure those within it. Such a refusal to accept responsibility and ensure accountability converted the genocide into a catalyst that has—for the first time—led to growing Indian recruitment into al-Qaeda and its regional affiliates, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Indian Mujahideen (IM).

When 6-year-old Irfan asked for water, Gujarati Hindus at Naroda Patiya made him forcibly drink inflammable liquid, before a lit match was thrown inside his gullet to make him explode within.

Gujarati Hindus sprinkled petrol on Shakila Banu's family members and burnt them alive. Her three-month-old niece was thrown in the fire.

Ten members of Imtiaz Khan Saeed Khan Pathan's extended family, including his mother, two nieces and two sisters-in-law, were hacked and burned to death. He was doused with petrol but survived because he managed to pull off his shirt.

A family of seven was attacked brutally by Gujarati Hindus. Two daughters were disrobed and raped.

Gujatati Hindus pulled away Farzana Pathan's mother and killed and burnt her in front of his eyes. His elder daughter Farhana was pulled away by a Gujarati Hindu. Her clothes were removed and 4-5 Gujarati Hindus raped her.

Gujarati Hindus killed Naimuddin Mohammed Yunus Ansari’s mother Abida Bibi. They flung his seven-year old niece Gulnaz Bano into the fire. His sister Saeeda died of burns at the hospital the next day. He was attacked by swords and lost his 11-month-old daughter while trying to flee. His wife Naseem was gang raped by four Gujarati Hindus; her left arm chopped off with a sword.

Yakub Rasul Patel’s wife, Bilkiz Bano, was 19 years old in 2002 and five months pregnant. A Gujarati Hindu neighbour raped Bilkis and another shoved his foot into her mouth, even as she desperately wanted to tell them she was pregnant. Gujarati Hindus tossed her 3-year old girl in the air so that she would smash her head upon landing on the rocky ground on that road to death in Panevala. 14 members of his family were murdered.

A Hindu woman married to a Muslim was mass-raped by Gujarati Hindus. Two accused Hindus kidnapped her 16-year old daughter, and threatened to rape her, unless she signed an affidavit claiming she had filed a false case against them.

The belly of a pregnant Kausar Banu was slit open by Babu Bajrangi PATEL with a sword, and both she and her foetus were torched. He said that he felt like Maharana Pratap.

Zabi (Jundal) has always held the 2002 Gujarat riots as one of the main reasons for him to take to terrorism.

Zabi said it was easy to recruit people from Gujarat. There are a large number of youth who feel strongly about the Muslim genocide. For the LeT, the 2002 genocide worked like a charm when it came to recruiting new cadres.

Zabi had a great deal of focus on the modules in Gujarat and was constantly working on building up a very strong network there. He focused largely on modules in Ahmedabad, and even while he was in Pakistan, his primary focus remained on Gujarat.

Zabi had gone down to Saudi Arabia to oversee the IM's growth and he wanted to ensure that a proper channel was set up in order to oversee the Gujarat operations.

Zabi was attempting a deadly cocktail of the Lashkar and the IM in Gujarat. LeT and the IM have at least 10 different plans regarding Gujarat. These groups will not stop concentrating on Gujarat.

Zabi had an important role to play in the 2006 Karnawati Express train blast.

Apart from blasts, Zabi had also planned assassinations. A couple of ISI agents were sent into India to assassinate Narendra Modi, but all those attempts failed.

11:32 am December 21, 2012

Deepali Dhanotia wrote:

Narendra Modi is a great Man with great vision and Absolutely Non corrupt.

The following three events have contributed to the growth of militancy, often amounting to terrorism, in the Indian Muslim community, particularly among its young members:

a. The demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya by Saffrons in Dec 1992;

b. The incidents of violence thereafter in Mumbai in which many Muslims were allegedly involved and Muslim complaints of disproportionate use of force by the Mumbai Police for suppressing the acts of violence;

c. The 2002 Muslim genocide in Gujarat.

These events contributed to the radicalization of two Muslim organisations which had existed before the demolition of the Babri Masjid and to the birth of a new organisation after the Muslim genocide in Gujarat.

Their main cause of anger is no longer the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Nor is it due to social or economic factors.

Their anger is due to their perception that the Indian criminal justice system is anti-Muslim. When they talk of the Indian criminal justice system, they essentially mean the police and the judiciary.

Gujarat State machinery abetted rioters and created the space for genocide; genocide was directly abetted, after it was controlled; Saffron politicians goaded the public mood to new danger levels; official records were destroyed; police deliberately overlooked the cell phone records of Saffron leaders involved in the genocide; the courts and the police were either manipulated or subverted; guilty officers were rewarded, upright officers were penalized or cut to size; public prosecutors are subverting justice in the courts by helping the accused instead of nailing their guilt; State blatantly continues prejudice against the victims.

As chief minister, Modi presided over this terrible implosion of a just and fair society. By virtue of also being the Cabinet minister for home, the entire law and order machinery — both police and intelligence — were directly under him.

Modi is guilty of a communal mindset, inflammatory speeches, destruction of crucial records, appointment of prejudiced Sangh parivar goons as public prosecutors, illegal positioning of ministers in police control rooms during the genocide, transferred officers, persecution of neutral officers, and a compromised bureaucracy.

Like Gujarati Hindus, should we all develop collective amnesia about what happened in Gujarat?

Is all of this not already starkly sufficient proof to establish that Modi presided over a criminally prejudiced and communal administration?

How much more culpability does an elected representative of India, inducted into office on Constitutional oath, have to display before further investigation and action is warranted against him?

Are these the attributes of a model leader?

Is there a right-thinking citizen who would say that these are the attributes of a model chief minister?

Since Gujarati Hindus have re-elected Modi after being confronted with visual proof of what he stands for, it displays their fallen nature. It displays the bankruptcy of their emotions and the poverty of their conscience.

The Muslim genocide offers sobering lessons for all Hindus to contemplate - on the perils (and for Gujarati hindus of a certain mindset, pleasures) of voting in governments insufficiently committed and indeed ideologically opposed to the idea of secularism enshrined in the Indian Constitution.

4:59 pm March 5, 2013

vijaysarkar wrote:

Mr. modi is disappoint with this year budget!!!

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